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Robotics provides answer for scaling up production
Added: 10 Jun 2020
Artisan beer production often operate at small scale. Robotics offers the cost effective solution t…

Bilfinger's Hinkley £350 million deal creates a matching 350 jobs
Added: 9 Jun 2020
Bilfinger UK has won two contracts worth £350 million for work at EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear pow…

Engineering and manufacturing ‘lag behind’ for post-COVID flexible working
Added: 9 Jun 2020
UK manufacturing and engineering firms were among the sectors least prepared to offer flexible work…

Protect to thrive: meeting the growing cybersecurity threat
Added: 5 Jun 2020
Increasingly sophisticated threats, limited internal experience and a lack of cybersecurity culture…

Factors to consider before postponing statutory inspections
Added: 5 Jun 2020
Many companies find themselves urgently needing to decide whether to postpone major maintenance int…

NMIS appoints Michelin’s Reid as new CEO
Added: 26 May 2020
The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has announced that former Michelin executive J…

Strict safety measures enable RPI to achieve ‘90% production’
Added: 21 May 2020
Specialist inspection systems develop RPI UK says its production capacity is back to 90% since reop…

Don’t let lockdown block recruitment of young talent says Make UK
Added: 27 Apr 2020
Manufacturers’ organisation Make UK called on engineering and manufacturing employers not to halt r…
UK pharmaceutical patents continue YoY rise
Added: 27 Apr 2020
Latest European Patent Office (EPO) data reveals the UK was responsible for 293 pharmaceutical sect…

VSD blowers ensure reduced maintenance programme
Added: 23 Apr 2020
Installing modern VSD rotary screw blowers, Scottish Water's Nigg wastewater treatment works now ac…

VFDs point the way forward for tackling animal feed crisis
Added: 22 Apr 2020
Growing demand for animal and fish food protein means more facilities will need controlled, ambient…

Lorien unveils Africa expansion plans
Added: 14 Apr 2020
Lorien Engineering Solutions has launched an office in South Africa prompted by a growing demand in…

Pandemic effect ‘likely to increase R&D commitment long term’
Added: 14 Apr 2020
The severity of the impact from the coronavirus pandemic could delay recent Government promises to …

Combating Covid-19: Process sector contributions continue
Added: 14 Apr 2020
Process industry firms are continuing to switch their attention to combating the Covid-19 crisis, w…

Virtual events ‘reduce carbon emissions by more than 99%’ claim
Added: 14 Apr 2020
The swathe of industrial and consumer trade shows cancelled in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic…

Process Industry rallies with Covid-19 action
Added: 8 Apr 2020
Companies throughout Britain and those which form part of the process industry supply chain have do…

AD equipment to be tested by avalanche of food waste from panic-buying
Added: 31 Mar 2020
AD and biogas operators should brace themselves for an avalanche of food waste that will test their…

Company vows to tackle source of one in five major oil & gas accidents
Added: 24 Mar 2020
Creators of a new digital tool for the oil and gas industry say it could help reduce a major cost a…

Rotherham advanced solutions firm gains US foothold
Added: 23 Mar 2020
Plant reliability specialist AVT Reliability has opened its first subsidiary in the USA, following …

Call for £7.5 bn investment to erase plastic waste and refuel economy
Added: 23 Mar 2020
Britain must invest billions to tackle the nearly five million tonnes of plastic waste it generates…